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Java EE 6 And Rethinking - JUG HH Afterglow 📎

I really enjoyed the session at Lehmann's (cool book store with impressive amount of not only Java books).  It was organized by JUG in Hamburg. We had interesting, late night, discussions - and finally some consensus:

  1. DAO is not completely dead - only in the majority of all cases :-).
  2. EJB 3.1 are lighter than expected
  3. Wicket is cool and JSF just works - especially with EJB 3.1.
  4. OSGI inside the applicationserver could solve some interesting problems in HA and highly dynamic environments.
  5. Layering is not always good.
  6. WAR deployment of no-interface beans is interesting for small web apps with databinding...
  7. Async methods are interesting - especially in case they can be monitored and managed by the appserver.
  8. Singletons are interesting for pre-initialization etc.
  9. ...and other stuff - it was finally to late.
This time I used GF v3 prelude b24 with Netbeans 6.5 development build (200809130201) to show some new stuff. It worked surprisingly well...Thanks to the organizers!